Huge opportunity wasted or huge waste of time avoided?

By: Martini Extra Dry | 2 Comments

Wednesday night saw Aston Villa crash out of the Carling Cup to lower league opposition for the fourth time in five years, losing to QPR 1-0 at Villa Park. Previous years have seen us fall to Leicester (1-0 at home also), Doncaster (3-0 away on a torrid night for Villa), Burnley (3-1 away) and only [...]

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Tags: Aston Villa, Burnley, Carling Cup, Chelsea, Coca-Cola Cup, Doncaster Rovers, FA Cup, League Cup, Leicester City, Littlewoods Cup, Milk Cup, Queens Park Rangers, Rumbelows Cup, Stamford Bridge, Team News, UEFA Cup, Villa Park, Worthington Cup

Seriously Fabio, no Ashley Young?!

By: Martini Extra Dry | 3 Comments

Fabio Capello yesterday named his England squad for the friendly against the Czech Republic, but the HUGE surprise for me is the omission of Ashley Young.
By way of punishment to you Fabio, I’ll display a picture of you in your pants! Ha! Take that! He won’t mess with me again, will he?

The full squad is [...]

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Tags: Ashley Cole, Ashley Young, Aston Villa, David Beckham, David Bentley, David James, Emile Heskey, England, Fabio Capello, Fabio Capello in his pants, Frank Lampard, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Gareth Barry, Glen Johnson, I should be England Manager!, Joe Cole, Joe Hart, John Terry, Jonathan Woodgate, Matthew Upson, Michael Carrick, Middlesbrough, Paul Robinson, Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard, Stewart Downing, Theo Walcott, Wayne Bridge, Wayne Rooney, Wes Brown

Well it’s hello from me… and hello from him

By: Martini Extra Dry | 4 Comments

Hi Villa blog readers, I know this isn’t in any way football related but I wanted to explain my sudden absence; I’m now a daddy!! It’s been a very emotional rollercoaster of a week, beginning with a mammoth 55 hour labour for my poor wife and resulting in the birth of my beautiful daughter and [...]

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Be proud… Be very proud

By: Martini Extra Dry | 2 Comments

Villa have today unveiled the new kits for the 2008-9 season which features our new sponsor; local charity Acorns Children’s Hospice. This new charity deal is the first of it’s kind in Premiership history.

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Tags: Aston Villa, Randy Lerner, Roman Abramovich

Season Highlights

By: irish_steve | 1 Comment

Hello fellow Villa fans. The season is over and we all should have a smile on our faces. We ended up coming 6th in the hardest league in the world and will be playing in Europe next season via the Intertoto cup. Over the next few weeks I will be reporting on all of our [...]

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The Barry Situation

By: irish_steve | 7 Comments

Sorry for not writing in ages. For the last month there has been rumors circulating in the newspapers about a possible Liverpool bid for our captain. While both clubs have downplayed the situation during the last few weeks it seems strange to me that 2 days after Liverpool get knocked out of the champion’s league [...]

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Tags: Aston Villa, Gareth Barry, Xabi Alonso

Super Gabby

By: irish_steve | No Comments

With Villa’s season just passing the halfway point there are many positive signs but none more so than the form of striker/winger Gabriel Agbonlahor. Last season he broke into the side and was a regular under Martin O’Neill playing on the right wing or up front. This season his play has been even more eye-catching, [...]

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UK and US football

By: DJ Cuts | 10 Comments

With Randy Lerner, the owner of Villa, the likely takeover of Arsenal by American interests, the recent news of Beckham’s move to the LA Galaxy and Angels move to NYRB it looks like the Trans-Atlantic football is big business.
Coupled with the coverage MLS has in UK press and no doubt the profile and popularity of [...]

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Tags: MLS, Randy Lerner

The History of Aston Villa

By: DJ Cuts | 3 Comments

Just getting into the stride of this blogging business. Anyway, I thought I should put up a little bit about the history of Villa. However I don’t think I could do as good a job as whats on wikipedia, so here’s the link.

WBA, Blues and Villa together in 1957 after all reaching the last 4 [...]

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Football in The Midlands

By: DJ Cuts | 7 Comments

Now most Villa fans reading this will be telling me to shut up, they know all this. However as this is mostly an MLS site I thought the guy’s in the states would like a bit of a background to football (Soccer) in the Midlands.
The Midlands has many football teams, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Coventry [...]

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